Originally Posted by
toddml
However for ease of figures Starwood rather than Westin has 292,000 rooms worldwide and if you work on 80% occupancy and average stays of 3 days say using 2 bottles of shampoo and body wash and a further 2 hadwash per stay, so 6 bottles in total that equates to 169,593,600 bottles a year, not may I point out counting conditioner! Doesnt seem that minusclue to me!
Everything is relative
An estimated 50 billion bottles of water are consumed per annum in the US and around 200 billion bottles globally (A Fountain On Every Corner", New York Times. Find A Fountain, May 23, 2008.)
Ant that's just water, not counting coke and such...
But I can see how tempting it is for starwood properties to save $ by not offering 169M bottles and claim "greening" along the way
